Ultimate Collection of National (Country) Flag Icon Sets

Needless to say that any web designer needs a good collection of country flag icon sets in his stash. Such icons are multipurpose and prove useful for any kind of a web site. Your client may want them to use as buttons to switch between languages or to navigate through the pages, dedicated to different countries.

You can also use them for widget designing when, for instance, you need to create a visitors counter, based on their geographical position. So whatever your purpose is, flag icons always catch the attention and make the site more attractive and easy to navigate.

The only difficulty, you might face, is actually finding nice examples of flag icon sets for your stash. The majority of them is rather hackneyed and bland. So to pick anything more or less worthy, you have to spend a great deal of time browsing through numerous libraries. We think that you’d better spend this time on web designing so we’ve done the job for you.

Feel free to discover our selection of best country flag icon sets that will suit even the most intricate design. We hope you’ll pick something suitable for you.

The Country Flag Icons for the iPhone come in .png, .ico and .icns formats. Available sizes include: 256×256px, 128×128px, 64×64px, 48×48px, 32×32px and 16×16px. There are 230 country icons in the set.

This icon set, from Smashing Magazine, is a huge collection of icons that focus on web design: web application icons, user interface icons, e-commerce icons,blog icons, smiley icons, button icons, keyboard icons and, of course, national flags icons. There are a total of 94 flag icons in the set.

This is a Photoshop and Illustrator development kit for creating flag buttons. After downloading the kit, to create a new button, just duplicate a layer group and paste the new flag into the respective layer. It’s as simple as that.

These icons are in several sizes so they’ll look great no matter where you’re using them – 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48 and 64×64. Icons provided in 2 variants – as flat and standard, and with a lovely glossy finish. Free for personal use.

Today’s icon pack includes 243 country flag icons. With such a large selection, you are sure to be able to find the flag you are looking for. These are free to use for personal and commercial projects.

A set of 75 premium icons in classic style. Icons are perfect for web sites design, software applications, presentations and print documents.40 Vector flags for most popular countries in the world, flags are complete drawn as vector shown inside circles.

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Important to remember though is that flags are representations of locales not languages. This problem has gotten more complicated over the years as more organizations and companies have a global audience that needs to select a regional website for content or products or currency specific to that region.

To avoid confusion for users we should limit use of flag icons to helping users select national or geographic regions.For example, DVDs that are region specific or car companies that sell different models and have different prices, dealers, etc. in different regions or even sites that have content that is specific to one region or another such as a global news site.

While we can all agree on the efficacy of icons we lose the usefulness of the icon when it’s used inappropriately. I’ve seen many arguments for not using flags for languages but for some reason many people seem to focus on cultural sensitivity rather than usability. While you may offend offend your Brazilian user by showing a flag of Portugal to indicate Portuguese or a Taiwanese user by using the flag of China, the issue of usability and confusion gets lost if we focus on the issue of cultural or political sensitivities.

Besides the fact that many people don’t recognize flags of various countries, you actually make your user do more work to try to translate which flag and can confuse them when the icon is in conflict with the fact that the user needs to select a geographic region.

So what’s the accepted protocol for language? Use the word for the language in the language such as
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